On 12/30/14 10:06 PM, Wang Shilong wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> >>> >>> I have a well tested and working fine Centos5-Xen system. Accumulated cruft >>> from various development efforts make it desirable to redo the install. >>> Currently a RAID-10 ext4 filesystem with LVM and 750G of storage. There's a >>> hot spare 750 drive in the system. >>> >>> I'm thinking of migrating the web sites (almost the only use of the server) >>> to a spare then installing Centos-7 and btrfs, then migrating the sites >>> back. >>> >>> I see RH marks btrfs in C7 as a technology preview but don't understand >>> what that implies for future support and a suitably stable basis for >>> storage. >>> >>> The demand on the system is low and not likely to change in the near >>> future, storage access speeds are not likely to be dealbreakers and it >>> would be nice to not need to use LVM, btrfs seems to have a better feature >>> set and more intuitive command set. But I'm uncertain about stability. >>> Anyone have an opinion? >>> >> >> I used CentOS7 btrfs myself, just doing some tests..it crashed easily. >> I don’t know how much efforts that Redhat do on btrfs for 7 series. > > Maybe use SUSE enterprise for btrfs will be a better choice, they offered > better support for btrfs as far as i know.
I believe SuSE's most recent support statement on btrfs is here, I think. https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/12/#fate-317221 -Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
